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 Heanor Market Place
replied on: 11/7/2004 12:57:33 PM
Also in the 1950s, there was a second-hand bookstall on the market on Friday and Saturday. It was run by a elderly but delightful cheery lady who came from Nottingham, i think.

Return/take a book and generally receive threepence for it or whatever according to the original value of the book. To buy a book was sixpence ordinarily, but better value books could cost from a shilling upwards.

It seems quite a few Heanor people brought their books from there as the stall front was generally packed with people shoving and jostling. The mostly paper-back books covered literally every subject under the sun and those two market days were awaited eagerly each week, by what seemed at times, the bulk of the Heanor population.
Azzabuv.
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